When Occupy Wall Street — a protest organized largely online to take over some space open to the public in the financial capital of the world here in New York and in so doing voice displeasure with the way big ... Read More

Fatal stakes: Online activists rallied to the cause of Troy Davis, convicted of killing a police officer, executed on Sept. 21, and, many say, the victim of an unjust system that failed to respond when it became clear ... Read More

Russia | Not only in crisis: making the most of crowdsourcing platforms In the summer of 2010, when fires spread across Russia, Internet activists got organized and created the Help Map, the first use of Ushahidi ... Read More

The online campaigns platform Change.org has acquired Actuable, the Spanish-language online campaigns platform. From the press release: The announcement, made Tuesday night at an event in Madrid celebrating the two year ... Read More

Protesters on Wall Street on Sept. 17. Photo: Paul Weiskel / Flickr Hundreds of people converged on Wall Street this weekend to protest corporate influence over politics, an event that began Saturday after a call to ... Read More

For years, many Internet activists have gone online to counter the influence of real-world lobbyists. Soon, though, they may go online to hire their own lobbying muscle instead. A coming website, YouLobby, is expected to ... Read More

Writing in Al-Jazeera's opinion section, Electronic Frontier Foundation Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York takes a view on the online battle between Syrian activists and an army of online foot ... Read More

The San Francisco Bay Area's commuter rail network, Bay Area Rapid Transit, angered many Thursday when it tried to thwart a protest against it by shutting down cellular service to passengers — prompting an attack ... Read More

ClickZ's Kate Kaye has a great look at how campaigns are going digital in their quest to win the Ames Straw Poll. Here's her describing how Republican political consulting firm Engage built a platform for former ... Read More

The progressive activist group Florida Watch has been pursing Gov. Rick Scott with an online/offline campaign called "Pink Slip Rick" — and now they're going to hit his phones. (Via Miami Herald)) In response to ... Read More

Chicago's "black site"; The New York Times reports "little guys" like Tumblr and Reddit have won the fight for net neutrality but fails to mention Free Press or Demand Progress; Hillary Clinton fan products on Etsy to inspire campaign slogans?; and much, much more. GO